Sweden’s Queer ‘Girl King’
I have always gravitated to the films that pull us back in time to the grandeur or spectacle of royalty and those who attend them in the 15th, 16th and 17th century. In The Girl King, Director Mika Kaurismaki thrusts us into the world of Sweden with his brilliant view of a queen that shall […]
A Lesbian Breakup Makeover
For the past hour, I have been sitting on my wood floor, legs splayed about to make room for the bookcase pieces I’m attempting to combine. I stare numbly at the half-put together jumble of particleboard and Swedish instructions in front of me, realizing that half the shelves are facing forward, and half are facing […]
Lesbian Filmmakers We Love: Petra Clever
Like most lesbians who love to see our stories on television or in film, I became a YouTube searcher a number of years ago. My fingers did the walking to a German series named Verbotene Liebe. It had a 20-year run with over 4300 episodes as a daily soap in Germany. You can imagine my […]
Check my new show ‘SF Mi Amor!’
San Francisco State! Go Gators! Any Gators in the house? Let me tell you how I got to my cable car college. I was a freshman at Yuba College in northern California—you have that confused look on your face. It’s the city college in Marysville—you still have that confused look on your face. I really […]
Suffering and Sufferage
Making a film about ‘women’s issues’ is always risky business. That’s been true since the first reel unwound in a darkened theatre. Men make up names about them—weepies, chic flicks—in order to dismiss and disparage the idea that women might sometimes see and react to the world differently from men. Despite the danger of critical […]
A Lesbian Film for all Seasons
The first time I saw a photo of Patricia Velásquez‘, I couldn’t catch my breath. Stunning doesn’t begin to describe her. In February 2015, I read Velásquez’  memoir Straight Walk, discussing her struggles growing up in poverty in Venezuela and how her relationship with Sandra Bernhard made her realize she was a lesbian. This, by the way, […]
Monica Palacios’ Queer Comedy in SF!
San Francisco, Mi Amor! The 80’s: Queer Comedy, Taquerias, The Castro, The Mission, Mullets & Shoulder Pads So Wide You Could Fly! I first saw Monica perform as one half of the ‘Only Latin Female Comedy Duo in the Universe’Â alongside Marga Gomez. It was 1985 at Fanny’s in the Castro, where I lived with […]
Never Too Old For The Dinah!
“Aren’t you a little old for that?†A friend asks in response to my Dinah Shore plan: Drink. Dance. Flirt. Repeat. With a resolve that only life’s hardest lessons can bring, I smile slyly and nod. “Yes. Yes I am.†Later, as 7 friends and I, all in our late 30s, drive along I-10, I replay […]
Can a Pill Cure Lesbian Bed Death?
By now you’ve probably heard about “the new female Viagraâ€:  Flibanserin, marketed under the name Addyi, promising to deliver sexual desire in pill form. The pharmaceutical company had a clever marketing slogan: Women deserve equal treatment for sexual issues. Who could argue with that? And could this be the magic pill that moves two women […]
What is Lesbian Compatibility? Part 2
Is She the Right One? See Compatibility 101 Part 1 HERE So, thirty years ago, at the beginning of our relationship the incompatibility between Kim and me would have been detected very fast by Match.com, giving us warnings about each other. I gave a few examples in my last blog: Kim has a hot temperament […]
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